Upendra Bharti | HENB | Mumbai | June 17, 2018:: Sanatan Sanstha activist Samir Gaikwad, who was arrested in connection with the murder of ‘anti-Hindu rationalist’ Govind Pandhrinath Pansare, was granted bail by the sessions court in Kolhapur on Saturday. Pansare had his allegiance to Communist Party of India and worked as an advocate and “anti-toll tax campaigner”.

The court accepted Gaikwad’s bail application on the conditions that he will not enter Kolhapur district and remain present before the investigation agency every Sunday. The court also asked Gaikwad to surrender his passport.

The bail to Gaikwad came as a major jolt to the Special Investigation Team (SIT), which is probing the murder. SIT failed to satisfy the court about its advancement of probe as a cause of further detention of Samir in Jail Custody without any sufficient proof. The bail came after three consecutive rejections made by the judiciary.

Leftist leader Pansare was shot dead by two unidentified persons in 2014 when he was returning home from his morning walk. On 16 February 2015, at 9:25am, Pansare and his wife Uma were returning from there morning walk from their society. Two men on a motorcycle shot five times at them at a close range outside their house. Pansare was injured in his nape and chest. His wife was injured in her head. On 20 February 2015, Pansare was airlifted to the Breach Candy Hospital after he reported a swelling in his lungs. On the same day, Pansare succumbed to his injuries at the Breach Candy Hospital.

The SIT in its chargesheet accused Gaikwad as co-conspirator, who it said along with other Sanatan activists eliminated Pansare.

Abhay Vartak, the spokesperson of Sanatan Sanstha addressed a press conference in Goa, saying that the bail of Samir Gaikwad is a big slap on the conspirators against Sanatan Sanstha and Samir Kulkarni.

“It will be proved that Samir is not guilty at all and he was falsely accused in Pansare murder case, police has no proof against Samir. The bail of Samir Gaikwad is a justice made by the court and they are happy with the court order to find Samir as out of Jail”, Vartak told in press conference.

Shri. Sanjeeb Punalekar, eminent advocate and key person of Hindu Vidhidnya Parishad+ reacted upon the State and Judicial system in which the rich communist people wanted to confine a poor farmer’s son Samir Gaikwad very clandestinely.

Advocate Punalekar hoped that it will be a remarkable year of Hindu victory in Judaical sphere and other Hindu victims and Saints like Sant Asaram Bapu would get bail and anti-Hindu system would be defeated very soon.